The Quezon City government yesterday
announced that more than 800 socialized housing units for the informal settler
families will soon be constructed in at least four other housing sites in the
city.

Secretary to the Mayor and Housing
Task Force chairman Tadeo Palma informed Mayor Herbert “Bistek” Bautista during
a regular executive meeting that the city’s pro-poor housing program will be
expanded to include four additional projects this year.

The first two of the socialized
housing projects are the Bistekville I in Barangay Payatas and Bistekville II
in Barangay Kaligayahan, the Tribune was told.

In an interview with members of the
Quezon City Press Club, Palma said negotiations have already started for the
project plans and other concerns, including actual design, to finally jumpstart
the Bistekville III in Barangay Escopa and Bistekville IV in Barangay Culiat.

The city official also said the Quezon
City Association of Filipino-Chinese Businessmen Inc. led by its president
Bobby Chua-Ching will finance 10 units of the housing projects, either in
Escopa or in Culiat.

Palma added Bistekville V, also in
Barangay Payatas, in a property of the Antonino family, and Bistekville VI in
Barangay North Fairview, are also in the pipeline.

Both Bistekville V and Bistekville VI
will accommodate more than 200 informal settler families, he said.

At the same time, Palma disclosed that
more than 22 informal settler families had already moved in at Bistekville I
while 44 others are scheduled to transfer to their units on June 12.